IPC Section 222 — Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed

Summary

A public servant who is legally required to arrest or keep in custody a person who has been sentenced by a court or lawfully placed in their custody, and who deliberately fails to arrest that person, or allows them to escape, or helps them escape or try to escape, will face punishment as described in the law.

Official Text

Whoever, being a public servant, legally bound as such public servant to apprehend or to keep in confinement any person under sentence of a Court of Justice for any offence or lawfully committed to custody, intentionally omits to apprehend such person, or intentionally suffers such person to escape or intentionally aids such person in escaping or attempting to escape from such confinement, shall be punished as follows, that is to say:

Referred to by

• IPC §225A — Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on part of public servant, in cases not otherwise, provided for

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNS §260 — Intentional omission to apprehend on part of public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed